Chicago Sun Times Experimenting with Bitcoin

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Quote from: R0yalAir on February 05, 2014, 12:50:12 AM

Quote from: Philj on February 01, 2014, 02:21:54 PM

I donated. My address was different than the others. Lets see how this little test goes for them, and hopefully they keep it around, and other media starts using it.

you donated ? is it a donation ?
i thought that was just something to pay for a subscription to the Chicago Sun-Times

They implemented it as a donation, it brings up a popup, but you can bypass it by not agreeing to donate.

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Quote from: Philj on February 01, 2014, 02:21:54 PM

I donated. My address was different than the others. Lets see how this little test goes for them, and hopefully they keep it around, and other media starts using it.

you donated ? is it a donation ?
i thought that was just something to pay for a subscription to the Chicago Sun-Times

Sonny

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Thanks for the link.
Sent 0.01btc just a while ago Tongue

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This is great news, sent a small donation

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Quote from: kdrop22 on February 01, 2014, 04:41:04 PM

Quote from: auzaar on February 01, 2014, 03:36:01 PM

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The weird thing is they don't seem to have a paywall up, every article I click on is there to read without donating?

I also don't see any paywall on any article, tired of clicking random news.

You may want to delete your cache and restart browser. (perhaps a little bit too much work).

That worked, donated $5

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I posted this little blurb on my Facebook;

"Paid ~22p in bitcoin to get on http://www.suntimes.com/ as a contribution to their experiment with the cryptocurrency. Also wanted to see for myself how viable international microtransactions are. Suffice to say I am still a supporter of bitcoin, anyone got a better way I could send pretty much any amount of money to Chicago with a fee of under 10p?"

Yeah yeah, I know my donation amount is crap, but all their news looked pretty uninteresting (not even a tech section?!) so I spent maybe 3 minutes max on the site. Still blindly showed my support regardless though. If everyone did the same this could get some serious attention.

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Quote from: auzaar on February 01, 2014, 03:36:01 PM

Quote from: ?? on ??

The weird thing is they don't seem to have a paywall up, every article I click on is there to read without donating?

I also don't see any paywall on any article, tired of clicking random news.

You may want to delete your cache and restart browser. (perhaps a little bit too much work).

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Your country may be your worst enemy

Very positive news. I hope the experiment will prove successful.

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The weird thing is they don't seem to have a paywall up, every article I click on is there to read without donating?

I also don't see any paywall on any article, tired of clicking random news.

BittBurger

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Just sent $20. The highest possible.

This is an important move folks. Donate. The more you can do, the better.

The masses will only remember a huge number when they announce the results of this experiment.

Make the number huge.

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The weird thing is they don't seem to have a paywall up, every article I click on is there to read without donating?

I think they are just testing their system

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I donated. My address was different than the others. Lets see how this little test goes for them, and hopefully they keep it around, and other media starts using it.

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Quote from: BTCisthefuture on February 01, 2014, 01:53:29 PM

Quote from: kdrop22 on February 01, 2014, 01:32:07 PM

Guys send them a small donation today. You know every newspaper is going to be writing about this in the coming days. (All the funds go to charity)
www.suntimes.com

I agree, if a lot of people donate it will appear across the news. If very little people donate that will also appear as well. Currently they are sitting at $23.42 raised on 15 donats... you can view the donation address here: https://blockchain.info/address/1FoxNT4Nh15bVUZu59w6oRpNABKm74dxG4

They use coinbase, so they probably generate a random address everytime. (Just checked my transaction history and I donated to a different address).

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Quote from: kdrop22 on February 01, 2014, 01:32:07 PM

Guys send them a small donation today. You know every newspaper is going to be writing about this in the coming days. (All the funds go to charity)
www.suntimes.com

I agree, if a lot of people donate it will appear across the news. If very little people donate that will also appear as well. Currently they are sitting at $23.42 raised on 15 donats... you can view the donation address here: https://blockchain.info/address/1FoxNT4Nh15bVUZu59w6oRpNABKm74dxG4

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Guys send them a small donation today. You know every newspaper is going to be writing about this in the coming days. (All the funds go to charity)
www.suntimes.com

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